You won't believe what Financial Times says about the ASF's convention

Days after the successful SFIG convention, ASF's finds few attendees

Tracy Alloway, the Financial Times' U.S. financial correspondent, reports from Las Vegas that things didn't turn out well for the American Securitization Forum's convention. (Follow Alloway on Twitter.)

Attendees didn't turn out either, she reports.

"Registered attendees for the SFIG conference reached more than 5,300 — record attendance according to one conference organiser. Meanwhile, over at ASF the scene was… a little different. ASF conference organisers have refused to reveal how many attendees they had registered. They also barred press from the event, making it difficult to get a full picture of the conference. This intrepid correspondent stopped by the ASF registration booth at the Aria in between Strawberry daiquiris on Sunday — opening day — to find just 32 conference passes waiting for attendees (yes, I counted). Gulp."

This is the first conference for the ASF since the Structured Industry Finance Group (along with core banks, asset management firms and ratings companies as sponsors) broke away in March 2013 from ASF.

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Trey Garrison was a Senior Financial Reporter for HousingWire.com. Trey served as real estate editor for the Dallas Business Journal, and was one of the founding editors of D CEO Magazine. He has been an editor for D Magazine — considered among the best city magazines in the United States — and a contributor for Reason magazine.

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